From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fedc2d05e82c9174 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Calculating SQRT in ADA Date: 1999/03/25 Message-ID: <1999Mar25.122653.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459024774 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <87aex3pue4.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> <36F913E0.75F51763@lmco.com> <7dbv4k$4r1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36F9AA62.24118202@lmco.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 922382816 24080 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36F9AA62.24118202@lmco.com>, "Howard W. LUDWIG" writes: > I suppose my main point is really that we should be more careful in how we > address questions of potential newbies (who may not even know there is an > Ada 95 in contrast to Ada 83). Some of us have this tendency to jump on > such people, belittling their honest ignorance, and showing off our > superior knowledge. Such responses make the true newbie a bit wary of Ada > based on an apparent elitist culture in the Ada community. We don't need > that kind of negative marketing. Not to excuse any of such behaviour, but comp.lang.ada is much less harsh than many newsgroups in such regards. Larry Kilgallen